Re: [PATCH] swap=<device> kernel commandline

From: Werner Almesberger (Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 16:34:55 EST

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Rik van Riel wrote:
> Did you try to load an initrd on a low-memory machine?
> It shouldn't work and it probably won't ;)

You must be really low on memory ;-)

# zcat initrd.gz | wc -c
409600

(ash, pwd, chroot, pivot_root, smount, and still about 82 kB free.)

- Werner

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